
My Octopus Teacher, winner 2019.
\t\t \tThe Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature is the Academy Award for the best nonfiction motion pitcture dealing creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects. It may be photograhed in actual occurrence, or may employ partial reenactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction.\n
\nNominees and winners[]
\nBest Documentary Feature By Decade\n |
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1940s\n
14th Academy Awards (1941)\n
\n- Winner \n
- SPECIAL AWARD:
- To Rey Scott for his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China's struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions. \n
- To The British Ministry of Information for its vivid and dramatic presentation of the heroism of the RAF in the documentary film, Target for Tonight.
\n16th Academy Awards (1943)\n
- Winner \n
- Desert Victory — British Ministry of Information \n
- Nominees \n
- Baptism of Fire — United States Army \n
- The Battle of Russia — United States Department of War Special Service Division \n
- Report from the Aleutians — United States Army Pictorial Service \n
- War Department Report — United States Office of Strategic Services Field Photographic Bureau
17th Academy Awards (1944)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Fighting Lady — United States Navy \n
- Nominees \n
- Resisting Enemy Interrogation — United States Army Air Force
18th Academy Awards (1945)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The True Glory — The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America \n
- Nominees \n
- The Last Bomb — United States Army Air Force
20th Academy Awards (1947)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Design for Death — Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard O. Fleischer \n
- Nominees \n
- Journey into Medicine — United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange \n
- The World Is Rich — Paul Rotha
21st Academy Awards (1948)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Secret Land — Orville O. Dull \n
- Nominees \n
- The Quiet One — Janice Loeb
22nd Academy Awards (1949)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Daybreak in Udi — Crown Film Unit \n
- Nominees \n
- Kenji Comes Home — Paul F. Heard
1950s\n
23rd Academy Awards (1950)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Titan: Story of Michelangelo — Robert Snyder \n
- Nominees \n
- With These Hands — Jack Arnold, Lee Goodman
24th Academy Awards (1951)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Kon-Tiki (1951) — Olle Nordemar \n
- Nominees \n
- I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. — Bryan Foy
25th Academy Awards (1952)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Sea around Us — Irwin Allen \n
- Nominees \n
- The Hoaxters — Dore Schary \n
- Navajo — Hall Bartlett
26th Academy Awards (1953)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Living Desert — Walt Disney \n
- Nominees \n
- The Conquest of Everest — John Taylor, Leon Clore Grahame Tharp \n
- A Queen Is Crowned — Castleton Knight
27th Academy Awards (1954)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Vanishing Prairie — Walt Disney \n
- Nominees \n
- The Stratford Adventure — Guy Glover
28th Academy Awards (1955)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Helen Keller in Her Story — Nancy Hamilton \n
- Nominees \n
- Heartbreak Ridge (1955) — Rene Risacher
29th Academy Awards (1956)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Silent World — Jacques-Yves Cousteau \n
- Nominees \n
- The Naked Eye — Louis Clyde Stoumen \n
- Where Mountains Float — The Government Film Committee of Denmark
30th Academy Awards (1957)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Albert Schweitzer — Jerome Hill \n
- Nominees \n
- On the Bowery — Lionel Rogosin \n
- Torero! — Manuel Barbachano Ponce
31st Academy Awards (1958)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Albert Schweitzer — Ben Sharpsteen \n
- Nominees \n
- Antarctic Crossing — James Carr \n
- The Hidden World — Robert Snyder \n
- Psychiatric Nursing — Nathan Zucker
32nd Academy Awards (1959)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Serengeti Shall Not Die — Bernhard Grzimek \n
- Nominees \n
- The Race for Space — David L. Wolper
1960s\n
33rd Academy Awards (1960)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Horse with the Flying Tail — Larry Lansburgh \n
- Nominees \n
- Rebel in Paradise — Robert D. Fraser
34th Academy Awards (1961)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath) — Arthur Cohn and Rene Lafuite \n
- Nominees \n
- La Grande Olimpiade (Olympic Games 1960) — dell Istituto Nazionale Luce, Comitato Organizzatore Del Giochi Della XVII Olimpiade
35th Academy Awards (1962)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Black Fox — Louis Clyde Stoumen \n
- Nominees \n
- Alvorada (Brazil's Changing Face) — Hugo Niebeling
36th Academy Awards (1963)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World — Robert Hughes \n
- Nominees \n
- Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain) — Paul de Roubaix \n
- The Yanks Are Coming — Marshall Flaum
37th Academy Awards (1964)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun — Jacques-Yves Cousteau \n
- Nominees \n
- The Finest Hours — Jack Le Vien \n
- Four Days in November — Mel Stuart \n
- The Human Dutch — Bert Haanstra \n
- Over There, 1914-18 — Jean Aurel
38th Academy Awards (1965)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Eleanor Roosevelt Story — Sidney Glazier \n
- Nominees \n
- The Battle of the Bulge...The Brave Rifles — Laurence E. Mascott \n
- The Forth Road Bridge — Peter Mills \n
- Let My People Go — Marshall Flaum \n
- To Die in Madrid — Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Rossif
39th Academy Awards (1966)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The War Game — Peter Watkins \n
- Nominees \n
- The Face of Genius — Alfred R. Kelman \n
- Helicopter Canada — Peter Jones, Tom Daly \n
- Le Volcan Interdit (The Forbidden Volcano) — Haroun Tazieff \n
- The Really Big Family — Alex Grasshoff
40th Academy Awards (1967)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Anderson Platoon — Pierre Schoendoerffer \n
- Nominees \n
- Festival — Murray Lerner \n
- Harvest — Carroll Ballard \n
- A King's Story — Jack Le Vien \n
- A Time for Burning — William C. Jersey
41st Academy Awards (1968)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Journey into Self — Bill McGaw - [NOTE: At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 Award. The first runner-up, Journey into Self, was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.] \n
- Nominees \n
- A Few Notes on Our Food Problem — James Blue \n
- The Legendary Champions — William Cayton \n
- Other Voices — David H. Sawyer \n
- Young Americans — Robert Cohn, Alex Grasshoff
42nd Academy Awards (1969)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life — Bernard Chevry \n
- Nominees \n
- Before the Mountain Was Moved — Robert K. Sharpe \n
- In the Year of the Pig — Emile de Antonio \n
- The Olympics in Mexico — Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada \n
- The Wolf Men — Irwin Rosten
1970s\n
43rd Academy Awards (1970)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Woodstock — Bob Maurice \n
- Nominees \n
- Chariots of the Gods — Dr. Harald Reinl \n
- Jack Johnson — Jim Jacobs \n
- King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis — Ely Landau \n
- Say Goodbye — David H. Vowell
44th Academy Awards (1971)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Hellstrom Chronicle — Walon Green \n
- Nominees \n
- Alaska Wilderness Lake — Alan Landsburg \n
- On Any Sunday — Bruce Brown \n
- The RA Expeditions — Lennart Ehrenborg, Thor Heyerdahl \n
- The Sorrow and the Pity — Marcel Ophuls
45th Academy Awards (1972)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Marjoe — Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan \n
- Nominees \n
- Ape and Super-Ape — Bert Haanstra \n
- Malcolm X — Marvin Worth, Arnold Perl \n
- Manson — Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick \n
- The Silent Revolution — Eckehard Munck
46th Academy Awards (1973)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Great American Cowboy — Kieth Merrill \n
- Nominees \n
- Always a New Beginning — John D. Goodell \n
- Battle of Berlin — Bengt von zur Muehlen \n
- Journey to the Outer Limits — Alex Grasshoff \n
- Walls of Fire — Gertrude Ross Marks, Edmund F. Penney
47th Academy Awards (1974)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Hearts and Minds — Peter Davis, Bert Schneider \n
- Nominees \n
- Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman — Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow \n
- The Challenge...A Tribute to Modern Art — Herbert Kline \n
- The 81st Blow — Jacquot Ehrlich, David Bergman, Haim Gouri \n
- The Wild and the Brave — Natalie R. Jones, Eugene S. Jones
48th Academy Awards (1975)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Man Who Skied Down Everest — F. R. Crawley, James Hager, Dale Hartleben \n
- Nominees \n
- The California Reich — Walter F. Parkes, Keith F. Critchlow \n
- Fighting for Our Lives — Glen Pearcy \n
- The Incredible Machine — Irwin Rosten \n
- The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir — Shirley MacLaine
49th Academy Awards (1976)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Harlan County, U.S.A. — Barbara Kopple \n
- Nominees \n
- Hollywood on Trial — James Gutman,David Helpern, Jr. \n
- Off the Edge — Michael Firth \n
- People of the Wind — Anthony Howarth, David Koff \n
- Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry — Donald Brittain, Robert Duncan
50th Academy Awards (1977)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? — John Korty, Dan McCann, Warren L. Lockhart \n
- Nominees \n
- The Children of Theatre Street — Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack \n
- High Grass Circus — Bill Brind, Torben Schioler, Tony Ianzelo \n
- Homage to Chagall--The Colours of Love — Harry Rasky \n
- Union Maids — James Klein, Julia Reichert, Miles Mogulescu
51st Academy Awards (1978)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Scared Straight! — Arnold Shapiro \n
- Nominees \n
- The Lovers' Wind — Albert Lamorisse \n
- Mysterious Castles of Clay — Alan Root \n
- Raoni — Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams, Michel Gast \n
- With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade — Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb, Lorraine Gray
52nd Academy Awards (1979)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Best Boy — Ira Wohl \n
- Nominees \n
- Generation on the Wind — David A. Vassar \n
- Going the Distance — Paul Cowan, Jacques Bobet \n
- The Killing Ground — Steve Singer, Tom Priestley \n
- The War at Home — Glenn Silber, Barry Alexander Brown
1980s\n
53rd Academy Awards (1980)\n
\n- Winner \n
- From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China — Murray Lerner \n
- Nominees \n
- Agee — Ross Spears \n
- The Day after Trinity — Jon Else \n
- Front Line — David Bradbury \n
- The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 — Bengt von zur Muehlen, Arthur Cohn
54th Academy Awards (1981)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Genocide — Arnold Schwartzman, Rabbi Marvin Hier \n
- Nominees \n
- Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey — Suzanne Bauman, Paul Neshamkin, Jim Burroughs \n
- Brooklyn Bridge — Ken Burns \n
- Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott — Mary Benjamin, Susanne Simpson, Boyd Estus \n
- El Salvador: Another Vietnam — Glenn Silber, Tete Vasconcellos
55th Academy Awards (1982)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Just Another Missing Kid — John Zaritsky \n
- Nominees \n
- After the Axe — Sturla Gunnarsson, Steve Lucas \n
- Ben's Mill — John Karol, Michel Chalufour \n
- In Our Water — Meg Switzgable \n
- A Portrait of Giselle — Joseph Wishy
56th Academy Awards (1983)\n
\n- Winner \n
- He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' — Emile Ardolino \n
- Nominees \n
- Children of Darkness — Richard Kotuk, Ara Chekmayan \n
- First Contact — Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson \n
- The Profession of Arms — Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen \n
- Seeing Red — James Klein and Julia Reichert
57th Academy Awards (1984)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Times of Harvey Milk — Robert Epstein, Richard Schmiechen \n
- Nominees \n
- High Schools — Charles Guggenheim, Nancy Sloss \n
- In the Name of the People — Alex W. Drehsler, Frank Christopher \n
- Marlene — Karel Dirka, Zev Braun \n
- Streetwise — Cheryl McCall
58th Academy Awards (1985)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Broken Rainbow — Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd \n
- Nominees \n
- Las Madres--The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo — Susana Mu\u00f1oz, Lourdes Portillo \n
- Soldiers in Hiding — Japhet Asher \n
- The Statue of Liberty — Ken Burns, Buddy Squires \n
- Unfinished Business — Steven Okazaki
59th Academy Awards (1986)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Tie: Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got — Brigitte Berman
Down and Out in America — Joseph Feury, Milton Justice \n - Nominees \n
- Chile: Hasta Cuando? — David Bradbury \n
- Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer — Kirk Simon, Amram Nowak \n
- Witness to Apartheid — Sharon I. Sopher
60th Academy Awards (1987)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table — Aviva Slesin \n
- Nominees \n
- Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965 — Callie Crossley, James A. DeVinney \n
- Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima — John Junkerman, John W. Dower \n
- Radio Bikini — Robert Stone \n
- A Stitch for Time — Barbara Herbich, Cyril Christo
61st Academy Awards (1988)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie — Marcel Ophuls \n
- Nominees \n
- The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naud\u00e9: An Afrikaner Speaks Out — Robert Bilheimer, Ronald Mix \n
- Let's Get Lost — Bruce Weber, Nan Bush \n
- Promises to Keep — Ginny Durrin \n
- Who Killed Vincent Chin? — Renee Tajima, Christine Choy
62nd Academy Awards (1989)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt — Robert Epstein, Bill Couturi\u00e9 \n
- Nominees \n
- Adam Clayton Powell — Richard Kilberg, Yvonne Smith \n
- Crack USA: County Under Siege — Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag \n
- For All Mankind — Al Reinert, Betsy Broyles Breier \n
- Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren — Judith Leonard, Bill Jersey
1990s\n
63rd Academy Awards (1990)\n
\n- Winner \n
- American Dream — Barbara Kopple, Arthur Cohn \n
- Nominees \n
- Berkeley in the Sixties — Mark Kitchell \n
- Building Bombs — Mark Mori, Susan Robinson \n
- Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade — Judith Montell \n
- Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey — Robert Hillmann, Eugene Corr
64th Academy Awards (1991)\n
\n- Winner \n
- In the Shadow of the Stars — Allie Light, Irving Saraf \n
- Nominees \n
- Death on the Job — Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag \n
- Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House — Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond \n
- The Restless Conscience — Hava Kohav Beller \n
- Wild by Law — Lawrence Hott, Diane Garey
65th Academy Awards (1992)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Panama Deception — Barbara Trent, David Kasper \n
- Nominees \n
- Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker — David Haugland \n
- Fires of Kuwait — Sally Dundas \n
- Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II — William Miles, Nina Rosenblum \n
- Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann — Margaret Smilow, Roma Baran
66th Academy Awards (1993)\n
\n- Winner \n
- I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School — Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond \n
- Nominees \n
- The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter — David Paperny, Arthur Ginsberg \n
- Children of Fate — Susan Todd, Andrew Young \n
- For Better or for Worse — David Collier, Betsy Thompson \n
- The War Room — D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
67th Academy Awards (1994)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision — Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders \n
- Nominees \n
- Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter — Deborah Hoffmann \n
- D-Day Remembered — Charles Guggenheim \n
- Freedom on My Mind — Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford \n
- A Great Day in Harlem — Jean Bach
68th Academy Awards (1995)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Anne Frank Remembered — Jon Blair \n
- Nominees \n
- The Battle over Citizen Kane — Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein \n
- Fiddlefest--Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program — Allan Miller, Walter Scheuer \n
- Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream — Mike Tollin, Fredric Golding \n
- Troublesom Creek: A Midwestern — Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher
69th Academy Awards (1996)\n
\n- Winner \n
- When We Were Kings — Leon Gast, David Sonenberg \n
- Nominees \n
- The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story — Susan W. Dryfoos \n
- Mandela — Jo Menell, Angus Gibson \n
- Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse — Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson \n
- Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press — Rick Goldsmith
70th Academy Awards (1997)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Long Way Home — Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank \n
- Nominees \n
- Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life — Michael Paxton \n
- Colors Straight Up — Mich\u00e8le Ohayon, Julia Schachter \n
- 4 Little Girls — Spike Lee, Sam Pollard \n
- Wace: The Rules of Engagement — Dan Gifford, William Gazecki
71st Academy Awards (1998)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Last Days — James Moll, Ken Lipper \n
- Nominees \n
- Dancemaker — Matthew Diamond, Jerry Kupfer \n
- The Farm: Angola, U.S.A. — Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus \n
- Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth — Robert B. Weide \n
- Regreat to Inform — Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole
72nd Academy Awards (1999)\n
\n- Winner \n
- One Day in September — Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald \n
- Nominees \n
- Buena Vista Social Club — Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg \n
- Genghis Blues — Roko Belic, Adrian Belic \n
- On the Ropes — Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen \n
- Speaking in Strings — Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster
2000s\n
73rd Academy Awards (2000)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport — Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer \n
- Nominees \n
- Legacy — Tod Lending \n
- Long Night's Journey into Day — Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann \n
- Scottsboro: An American Tragedy — Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker \n
- Sound and Fury — Josh Aronson, Roger Weisberg
74th Academy Awards (2001)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Murder on a Sunday Morning — Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Denis Poncet \n
- Nominees \n
- Children Underground — Edet Belzberg \n
- LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton — Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson \n
- Promises — Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg \n
- War Photographer — Christian Frei
75th Academy Awards (2002)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Bowling for Columbine — Michael Moore, Michael Donovan \n
- Nominees \n
- Daughter from Danang — Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco \n
- Prisoner of Paradise — Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender \n
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- Winged Migration — Jacques Perrin
76th Academy Awards (2003)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Fog of War — Errol Morris, Michael Williams \n
- Nominees \n
- Balseros — Carlos Bosch, Josep Maria Dom\u00e8nech \n
- Capturing the Friedmans — Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling \n
- My Architect — Nathaniel Kahn, Susan R. Behr \n
- The Weather Underground — Sam Green, Bill Siegel
77th Academy Awards (2004)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Born into Brothels — Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski \n
- Nominees \n
- The Story of the Weeping Camel — Luigi Falorni, Byambasuren Davaa \n
- Super Size Me — Morgan Spurlock \n
- Tupac: Resurrection — Lauren Lazin, Karolyn Ali \n
- Twist of Faith — Kirby Dick, Eddie Schmidt
78th Academy Awards (2005)\n
\n- Winner \n
- March of the Penguins — Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau \n
- Nominees \n
- Darwin's Nightmare — Hubert Sauper \n
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot \n
- Murderball — Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro \n
- Street Fight — Marshall Curry
79th Academy Awards (2006)\n
\n- Winner \n
- An Inconvenient Truth — Davis Guggenheim \n
- Nominees \n
- Deliver Us from Evil — Amy Berg, Frank Donner \n
- Iraq in Fragments — James Longley, John Sinno \n
- Jesus Camp — Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady \n
- My Country, My Country — Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer
80th Academy Awards (2007)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Taxi to the Dark Side — Alex Gibney, Eva Orner \n
- Nominees \n
- No End in Sight — Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs \n
- Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience — Richard E. Robbins \n
- Sicko — Michael Moore, Meghan O'Hara \n
- War/Dance — Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine
81st Academy Awards (2008)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Man on Wire — James Marsh, Simon Chinn \n
- Nominees \n
- The Betrayal - Nerakhoon — Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath \n
- Encounters at the End of the World — Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser \n
- The Garden — Scott Hamilton Kennedy \n
- Trouble the Water — Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
82nd Academy Awards (2009)\n
\n- Winner \n
- The Cove — Louie Psihoyos, Fisher Stevens \n
- Nominees \n
- Burma VJ — Anders \u00d8stergaard, Lise Lense-M\u00f8ller \n
- Food, Inc. — Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein \n
- The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers — Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith \n
- Which Way Home — Rebecca Cammisa
2010s\n
83rd Academy Awards (2010)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Inside Job — Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs \n
- Nominees \n
- Exit Through the Gift Shop — Banksy, Jaimie D'Cruz \n
- Gasland — Josh Fox, Trish Adlesic \n
- Restrepo — Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger \n
- Waste Land — Lucy Walker, Angus Aynsley
84th Academy Awards (2011)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Undefeated — T.J. Martin, Daniel Lindsay, Rich Middlemas \n
- Nominees \n
- Hell and Back Again — Danfung Dennis, Mike Lerner \n
- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front — Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman \n
- Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory — Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky \n
- Pina — Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel
85th Academy Awards (2012)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Searching for Sugar Man — Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn \n
- Nominees \n
- 5 Broken Cameras — Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi \n
- The Gatekeepers — Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, Estelle Fialon \n
- How to Survive a Plague — David France, Howard Gertler \n
- The Invisible War — Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering
86th Academy Awards (2013)\n
\n- Winner \n
- 20 Feet from Stardom — Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers \n
- Nominees \n
- The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sorensen \n
- Cutie and the Boxer — Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher \n
- Dirty Wars — Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill \n
- The Square — Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer
87th Academy Awards (2014)\n
\n- Winner \n
- CitizenFour — Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky \n
- Nominees \n
- Finding Vivian Maier — John Maloof, Charlie Siskel \n
- Last Days in Vietnam — Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester \n
- The Salt of the Earth — Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier \n
- Virunga — Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara
88th Academy Awards (2015)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Amy — Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees \n
- Nominees \n
- Cartel Land — Matthew Heineman, Tom Yellin \n
- The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sorensen \n
- What Happened, Miss Simone? — Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby, Justin Wilkes \n
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom — Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor
89th Academy Awards (2016)\n
\n- Winner \n
- O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow \n
- Nominees \n
- Fire at Sea — Gianfranco Rosi, Donatella Palermo \n
- I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck, Remi Grellety, Hebert Peck \n
- Life, Animated — Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman \n
- 13th — Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, Howard Barish
90th Academy Awards (2017)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Icarus — Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan \n
- Nominees \n
- Abacus: Small Enough to Jail — Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman \n
- Faces Places — Agnes Varda, JR, Rosalie Varda \n
- Last Men in Aleppo — Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Steen Jespersen \n
- Strong Island — Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes
91st Academy Awards (2018)\n
\n- Winner \n
- Free Solo — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, Shannon Dill \n
- Nominees \n
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim \n
- Minding the Gap — Bing Liu, Diane Quon \n
- Of Fathers and Sons — Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert \n
- RBG — Betsy West, Julie Cohen
92nd Academy Awards (2019)\n
\n- Winner \n
- American Factory — Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert \n
- Nominees \n
- The Cave — Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod, Sigrid Dyekj\u00e6r \n
- The Edge of Democracy — Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris, Tiago Pavan \n
- For Sama — Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts \n
- Honeyland — Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska, Atanas Georgiev
2020s \n
93rd Academy Awards (2020)\n
\n- Winner \n
- My Octopus Teacher — Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster \n
- Nominees \n
- Collective — Alexander Nanau, Bianca Oana \n
- Crip Camp — Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht, Sara Bolder \n
- The Mole Agent — Maite Alberdi, Marcela Santib\u00e1\u00f1ez \n
- Time — Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn
94th Academy Awards (2021)\n
\n- Winner \n
- TBD \n
- Nominees \n
- Ascension — Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, Nathan Truesdell \n
- Attica — Stanley Nelson, Traci A. Curry \n
- Flee — Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellstr\u00f6m, Signe Byrge S\u00f8rensen, Charlotte De La Gournerie \n
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) — ?uestlove, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent, David Dinerstein \n
- Writing with Fire — Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh